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It is a large pheasant, up to 76 cm long and greyish brown with finely spotted green eyespots, an elongated bushy crest, bare pink or yellow facial skin, white throat, and grey iris, bill and legs. The sexes are rather similar, but the female is smaller, darker and less ornamented than the male. The young resemble the female.
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When to see the Grey Peacock-Pheasant
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Grey Peacock-Pheasant
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Grey Peacock-Pheasant
The grey peacock-pheasant, also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes.
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Easily confused with
Germain's Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron germainiThe bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 centimetres (24 in) long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers.
Mountain Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron inopinatumThe mountain peacock-pheasant, also known as Rothschild's peacock-pheasant or mirror pheasant, is a medium-sized, up to 65 cm long, blackish brown pheasant.
Malayan Peacock-PheasantPolyplectron malacenseIt is one of the shortest-tailed peacock-pheasants.
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